Tomasz Gollob

Tomasz Gollob
Personal information
Nationality	Poland
Date of birth	(1971-04-11) 11 April 1971
Place of birth	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Website	www.gollobracing.com
Current club information
Polish league	GKM Grudziadz
Swedish league	Hammarby Speedway
Career history
Polonia Bydgoszcz (POL) Wybrzeże Gdańsk (POL) Ipswich Witches (GBR) Västervik (SWE) Unia Tarnów (POL) Stal Gorzów Wlkp. (POL) KS Toruń (POL) GKM Grudziadz (POL)	1988, 1990-2003 1989 1998-2000 2001-2010 2004-2007 2008-2012 2013-2014 2015
Speedway Grand Prix statistics
2009 Number	2
Starts	112[1]
Podiums	42 (20-6-16)
Finalist	51 time
Winner	20 times
Individual honours
World Champion Polish Champion Polish Under 21 Champion Polish Golden Helmet Winner Polish Silver Helmet Winner Polish Grand Prix Champion Jack Young Memorial Cup winner Swedish Grand Prix Champion Czech Grand Prix Champion German Grand Prix Champion	2010 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009 1990, 1991, 1992 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002 1990, 2002 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 1995 1997 1999 2001
Team honours
World Team Cup Winner World Cup Winner European Cup Champions' Winner Polish Team Champion Polish Pairs Champion Elite League Champion Elite League KO Cup Winner Craven Shield Winner Swedish Elitserien Champion	1996 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 2001 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 1998 1998 1998 2005, 2006

Tomasz Gollob ([ˈtɔmaʂ ˈɡɔlːɔp]; born 11 April 1971 in Bydgoszcz, Poland)^[2] is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who has appeared in every Speedway Grand Prix series since its inaugural season in 1995. His brother Jacek is also a speedway rider.

Career summary

Site of 2007 plane crash.

Tomasz Gollob spent almost all of his career with hometown club Bydgoszcz until he moved to Unia Tarnów in 2004. He has won the Polish Individual Championship eight times (between 1992 and 2009) and the Polish Pairs Championship ten times. He has also won the Polish Grand Prix eight times in thirteen years. He clinched the Speedway World Championship in 2010 after securing the championship in Terenzano, Italy. He is only the second Pole to ever win the World Championship, following in the footsteps of Jerzy Szczakiel who won in 1973.

Gollob also spent some time in Australia in the early-mid 1990s based at the North Arm Speedway in Adelaide. While In Australia, Gollob would race against many of his future World Championship rivals including Jason Crump, Leigh Adams, and Ryan Sullivan. Gollob is the only World Champion to win the Jack Young Solo Cup held in Adelaide each year in memory of Australia's 1951 and 1952 World Champion, Jack Young. He won the cup in 1995 at North Arm.

Gollob was also a member of the Poland speedway team that won the World Team Cup in 1996 and the World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011.

In 2007 Gollob survived a plane crash with fellow rider Rune Holta. The plane, flown by his father Władysław, crashed on the way to a speedway meeting at Tarnów. Gollob escaped with cuts and bruises after pulling his father from the wreckage.^[3]

For his sport achievements, he received the Order of Polonia Restituta:
Knight's Cross (5th Class) in 2000,
Officer's Cross (4th Class) in 2007,
Commander's Cross (2010)

World final appearances

Individual World Championship

• 1993 - Pocking, Rottalstadion - 7th - 8pts
• 1994 - Vojens, Speedway Center - 16th - 0pts^[4]

World Pairs Championship

• 1993 - Vojens, Speedway Center (with Piotr Świst / Piotr Baron) - 5th - 15pts (15)

World Team Cup

• 1994 - Brokstedt, Holsteinring Brokstedt - 2nd - 20pts (16)
• 1995 - Bydgoszcz, Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium - 6th - 13pts (12)
• 1996 - Diedenbergen, Hofheim-Diedenbergen - Winner - 27pts (15)
• 1997 - Piła, Stadion Żużlowy Centrum - 2nd - 25pts (13)
• 1998 - Vojens, Speedway Center - 4th - 17pts (15)

World Cup

• 2001 - Wrocław, Olympic Stadium - 2nd - 65pts (27)
• 2002 - Peterborough, East of England Showground - 4th - 48pts (17)
• 2003 - Vojens, Speedway Center - 4th - 49pts (20)
• 2004 - Poole, Poole Stadium - 4th - 22pts (1)
• 2005 - Wrocław, Olympic Stadium - Winner - 62pts
• 2007 - Leszno, Alfred Smoczyk Stadium - Winner - 55pts
• 2008 - Vojens, Speedway Center - 2nd - 46pts
• 2009 - Leszno, Alfred Smoczyk Stadium - Winner - 44pts
• 2010 - Vojens, Speedway Center - Winner - 46pts

Individual Under-21 World Championship

• 1992 - Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Speedway Stadion Pfaffenhofen - 5th - 10pts

Speedway Grand Prix results

Family

Tomasz Gollob has two brothers and one sister ^[5]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tomasz Gollob.

• Poland national speedway team
• List of Speedway Grand Prix riders
• Speedway in Poland

References

External links

• www.gollobracing.com - official website

Awards
Preceded by Robert Korzeniowski	Polish Sportspersonality of the year 1999	Succeeded by Robert Korzeniowski

colspan=10 bgcolor="FFA07A" border:1px solid red; width:87%" | 2011 Speedway Grand Prix riders
1	Gollob	2	Hampel	3	Crump	4	Holta	5	Hancock
6	Harris	7	Bjerre	8	Holder	9	Jonsson	10	Pedersen
11	Lindgren	12	Sayfutdinov	13	Laguta	14	Lindbäck	15	Kołodziej

2009 Polish national speedway team Senior team Baliński Dobrucki T.Gollob A.Gomólski Hampel Holta Jaguś Jędrzejak K.Kasprzak Kołodziej Miedziński Skórnicki Świderski Ułamek Walasek Junior team (U-21) Celmer Dudek Janowski Kajoch Lampart Mitko Miturski Mroczka Musielak Pawlaszczyk Pawlicki Piaszczyński D.Sperz Szewczykowski Zengota

Speedway World Champions 1936 - L. Van Praag 1937 - J Milne 1938 - B. Wilkinson 1949 - T. Price 1950 - F. Williams 1951 - J. Young 1952 - J. Young 1953 - F. Williams 1954 - R. Moore 1955 - P. Craven 1956 - O. Fundin 1957 - B. Briggs 1958 - B. Briggs 1959 - R. Moore 1960 - O. Fundin 1961 - O. Fundin 1962 - P. Craven 1963 - O. Fundin 1964 - B. Briggs 1965 - B. Knutsson 1966 - B. Briggs 1967 - O. Fundin 1968 - I. Mauger 1969 - I. Mauger 1970 - I. Mauger 1971 - O. Olsen 1972 - I. Mauger 1973 - J. Szczakiel 1974 - A. Michanek 1975 - O. Olsen 1976 - P. Collins 1977 - I. Mauger 1978 - O. Olsen 1979 - I. Mauger 1980 - M. Lee 1981 - B. Penhall 1982 - B. Penhall 1983 - E. Müller 1984 - E. Gundersen 1985 - E. Gundersen 1986 - H. Nielsen 1987 - H. Nielsen 1988 - E. Gundersen 1989 - H. Nielsen 1990 - P. Jonsson 1991 - J. Pedersen 1992 - G. Havelock 1993 - S. Ermolenko 1994 - T. Rickardsson 1995 - H. Nielsen 1996 - B. Hamill 1997 - G. Hancock 1998 - T. Rickardsson 1999 - T. Rickardsson 2000 - M. Loram 2001 - T. Rickardsson 2002 - T. Rickardsson 2003 - N. Pedersen 2004 - J. Crump 2005 - T. Rickardsson 2006 - J. Crump 2007 - N. Pedersen 2008 - N. Pedersen 2009 - J. Crump 2010 - T. Gollob 2011 - G. Hancock 2012 - C. Holder 2013 - T. Woffinden 2014 - G. Hancock